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The jury cannot be 100% certain if he's the murderer...even the case if flawed....with many unanswered questions...
SYDNEY: The jury in the trial of Singaporean Ram Tiwary has been urged to acquit him. Summing up, the defence on Friday accused police of failing to keep an open mind in their investigation of the murder of Tiwary's two flatmates six years ago.
It was September 2003 when the bodies of Tony Tan Poh Chuan and Tay Chow Lyang were found in their apartment, close to the University of New South Wales. Both had been clubbed to death with a baseball bat.
News of the horrific murders shocked fellow students at the university, which is attended by thousands of overseas students, many of them from Asia.
Six months later, Ram Tiwary, who was on a scholarship from the Singapore army, was charged with their murder. Although he was later convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, he won an appeal.
The re-trial, which began about four weeks ago at the New South Wales Supreme Court, heard how Tiwary, who is now 30, had told police he was asleep in the flat at the time of the murders.
But his story was at odds with the account he gave his friends who were told he came home to find the blood-soaked bodies of his two flatmates.
The defendant explained that he had lied because he was too ashamed to admit he had not gone to the aid of his dead friends. He also claimed the blood that was found on his feet and clothing must have got there when he checked Tan's pulse and the victim coughed up blood.
Crown Prosecutor John Kiely said Tiwary had the motive, the opportunity and the capacity to kill the two men. He was badly behind with his rent and his student life was falling apart.
But there were also claims that there had been a litany of mistakes in the police investigation.
The judge is expected to begin his summing up on Monday. Tiwary's family members, who have spent much of the past month in Sydney supporting him, should find out next week whether he will walk free or spend much of the rest of his life behind bars.
- CNA
SYDNEY: The jury in the trial of Singaporean Ram Tiwary has been urged to acquit him. Summing up, the defence on Friday accused police of failing to keep an open mind in their investigation of the murder of Tiwary's two flatmates six years ago.
It was September 2003 when the bodies of Tony Tan Poh Chuan and Tay Chow Lyang were found in their apartment, close to the University of New South Wales. Both had been clubbed to death with a baseball bat.
News of the horrific murders shocked fellow students at the university, which is attended by thousands of overseas students, many of them from Asia.
Six months later, Ram Tiwary, who was on a scholarship from the Singapore army, was charged with their murder. Although he was later convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, he won an appeal.
The re-trial, which began about four weeks ago at the New South Wales Supreme Court, heard how Tiwary, who is now 30, had told police he was asleep in the flat at the time of the murders.
But his story was at odds with the account he gave his friends who were told he came home to find the blood-soaked bodies of his two flatmates.
The defendant explained that he had lied because he was too ashamed to admit he had not gone to the aid of his dead friends. He also claimed the blood that was found on his feet and clothing must have got there when he checked Tan's pulse and the victim coughed up blood.
Crown Prosecutor John Kiely said Tiwary had the motive, the opportunity and the capacity to kill the two men. He was badly behind with his rent and his student life was falling apart.
But there were also claims that there had been a litany of mistakes in the police investigation.
The judge is expected to begin his summing up on Monday. Tiwary's family members, who have spent much of the past month in Sydney supporting him, should find out next week whether he will walk free or spend much of the rest of his life behind bars.
- CNA
